The Law is for All

Chapter III a Verses 53-55 171 Let me strictly meditate this hate of the mother, /mr is the Sanskrit root = “Kill,” hence Mara, mors,1 Maria, and I suppose meer, mere, mer1 2—in short, lots of words meaning death or sea. Note Mordred as the traitor villain in Morte d’Arthur.3 In Liber Legis we have “Mary” who is to be “torn upon wheels” apparently because she is “inviolate”. Liber 418 has some explanation of this: “because she hath shut herself up,” I seem to remember is the phrase.4 1 [In Buddhism Mara is a devaputta or superhuman entity, usually char­ acterized as evil; he has other technical synonyms, including death and killing (Skt. marana). Mors is Latin for death.] 2 [The Dutch/German and French for “sea,” and Anglo-Saxon for “pool or lake.”] 3 [Sir Thomas Malory, Morte d’Arthur (1485); see Works Cited.] 4 [See the quotation from Liber 418, 3rd TEthyr, on page 172 below.] She is sakti, the te, the Magical Door between the tao and the Manifested World. The great Obstacle then is if that Door be locked up. Therefore Our Lady must be symbolized as an Whore. (Note daleth, the Door = Venus. The Dove; Free-flowing; all this is linked up in the symbol.) Clearly, at last, the Enemy is this Shutting up of things. Shutting the Door is preventing the Operation of Change, i.e., of Love. The objection to Calypso, Circe, Armida, Kundry, and Co. is that one is liable to be shut up in their Gardens. The whole of the Book of the Dead is a device for opening the closed vehi­ cles, and enabling the Osiris to go in and out at his pleasure. On the other hand, there seems to be a Sealing Up, for a def­ inite period, in order to allow the Change to proceed undis­ turbed. Thus Earth lies fallow; the womb is closed during gestation; the Osiris is plugged with talismans. But it is vital to consider this as a strictly temporary device; and to cut out the idea of Eternal Rest. This »/¿¿ana-idea is the coward- “Mother’s Boy” idea; one ought to take a refreshing dip in the tao, no more. I think this must be brought forward as the Cardinal Point of Our Holy Law. Thus though Nuit cries “To me!”, that is balanced by the Formula of Hadit: ‘“Come unto me’ is a foolish word; for it is I that go.” Now the Semen is God (the going-one, as shewn by the ankh or Sandal-strap, which He carries) because he goes in at the Door, stays there for a specified period, and comes out 1:62, 65 11:7